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2 Network Working Group S. Farrell
3 Internet-Draft Trinity College, Dublin
4 Intended status: Informational R. Wenning
5 Expires: November 28, 2015 B. Bos
6 W3C
7 M. Blanchet
8 Viagenie
9 H. Tschofenig
10 ARM Ltd.
11 May 27, 2015
13 Report from the Strengthening the Internet (STRINT) workshop
14 draft-iab-strint-report-02
16 Abstract
18 The Strengthening the Internet (STRINT) workshop assembled one
19 hundred participants in London for two days in early 2014 to discuss
20 how the technical community, and in particular the IETF and the W3C,
21 should react to Pervasive Monitoring and more generally how to
22 strengthen the Internet in the face of such attacks. The discussions
23 covered issues of terminology, the role of user interfaces, classes
24 of mitigation, some specific use cases, transition strategies
25 (including opportunistic encryption), and more. The workshop ended
26 with a few high-level recommendations, which it is believed could be
27 implemented and which could help strengthen the Internet. This is
28 the report of that workshop.
30 Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of the
31 workshop. The views and positions documented in this report are
32 those of the workshop participants and do not necessarily reflect IAB
33 views and positions.
35 Status of This Memo
37 This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the
38 provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.
40 Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
41 Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute
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43 Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/.
45 Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
46 and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
47 time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
48 material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
49 This Internet-Draft will expire on November 28, 2015.
51 Copyright Notice
53 Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
54 document authors. All rights reserved.
56 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
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58 (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
59 publication of this document. Please review these documents
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61 to this document.
63 Table of Contents
65 1. Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
66 2. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
67 3. Workshop goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
68 4. Workshop structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
69 5. Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
70 6. After the workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
71 7. IANA considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
72 8. Security considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
73 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
74 Appendix A. Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
75 Appendix B. Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
76 Appendix C. Workshop chairs & program committee . . . . . . . . 28
77 Appendix D. Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
78 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
80 1. Context
82 The Vancouver IETF plenary[vancouverplenary] concluded that Pervasive
83 Monitoring (PM) represents an attack on the Internet, and the IETF
84 has begun to carry out the more obvious actions required to try to
85 handle this attack. However, there are additional much more complex
86 questions arising that need further consideration before any
87 additional concrete plans can be made.
89 The W3C [1] and IAB [2] therefore decided to host a workshop [3] on
90 the topic of "Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive
91 Monitoring" before IETF 89 [4] in London in March 2014. The
92 FP7-funded STREWS [5] project organised the STRINT workshop on behalf
93 of the IAB and W3C.
95 The main workshop goal was to discuss what can be done, especially by
96 the two standards organisations IETF and W3C, against PM, both for
97 existing Internet protocols (HTTP/1, SMTP, etc.) and for new ones
98 (WebRTC, HTTP/2, etc.).
100 The starting point for the workshop was the existing IETF consensus
101 that PM is an attack[RFC7258] (the text of which had achieved IEFF
102 consensus at the time of the workshop, even though the RFC had yet to
103 be published).
105 2. Summary
107 The workshop was well attended (registration closed when the maximum
108 capacity of 100 was reached, but more than 150 expressed a desire to
109 register) and several people (about 165 at the maximum) listened to
110 the streaming audio. The submitted papers (67 in total) were
111 generally of good quality and all were published, except for a few
112 where authors who couldn't take part in the workshop preferred not to
113 publish.
115 The chairs of the workshop summarised the workshop in the final
116 session in the form of the following recommendations:
118 1. Well-implemented cryptography can be effective against PM and
119 will benefit the Internet if used more, despite its cost, which
120 is steadily decreasing anyway.
122 2. Traffic analysis also needs to be considered, but is less well
123 understood in the Internet community: relevant research and
124 protocol mitigations such as data minimisation need to be better
125 understood.
127 3. Work should continue on progressing the PM threat model
128 draft[I-D.barnes-pervasive-problem] discussed in the workshop.
130 4. Later, the IETF may be in a position to start to develop an
131 update to BCP 72 [RFC3552], most likely as a new RFC enhancing
132 that BCP and dealing with recommendations on how to mitigate PM
133 and how to reflect that in IETF work.
135 5. The term "Opportunistic" has been widely used to refer to a
136 possible mitigation strategy for PM. The community need to
137 document definition(s) for this term, as it is being used
138 differently by different people and in different contexts. We
139 may also be able to develop a cookbook-like set of related
140 protocol techniques for developers. Since the workshop, the
141 IETF's security area has taken up this work, most recently
142 favouring the generic term "Opportunistic Security" (OS)
143 [I-D.kent-opportunistic-security]. Subsequent work on this
144 topic resulted in the publication of a definition of OS in
145 [RFC7435].
147 6. The technical community could do better in explaining the real
148 technical downsides related to PM in terms that policy makers
149 can understand.
151 7. Many User Interfaces (UIs) could be better in terms of how they
152 present security state, though this is a significantly hard
153 problem. There may be benefits if certain dangerous choices
154 were simply not offered anymore. But that could require
155 significant co-ordination among competing software makers,
156 otherwise some will be considered "broken" by users.
158 8. Further discussion is needed on ways to better integrate UI
159 issues into the processes of IETF and W3C.
161 9. Examples of good software configurations that can be cut-and-
162 paste'd for popular software, etc., can help. This is not
163 necessarily standards work, but maybe the standards
164 organisations can help and can work with those developing such
165 package-specific documentation.
167 10. The IETF and W3C can do more so that default ("out-of-the-box")
168 settings for protocols better protect security and privacy.
170 11. Captive portals [6] (and some firewalls, too) can and should be
171 distinguished from real man-in-the-middle attacks. This might
172 mean establishing common conventions with makers of such
173 middleboxes, but might also need new protocols. However, the
174 incentives for deploying such new middlebox features might not
175 align.
177 3. Workshop goals
179 As stated, the STRINT workshop started from the position [RFC7258]
180 that PM is an attack. While some dissenting voices are expected and
181 need to be heard, that was the baseline assumption for the workshop,
182 and the high-level goal was to provide more consideration of that and
183 how it ought to affect future work within the IETF and W3C.
185 At the next level down the goals of the STRINT workshop were to:
187 o Discuss and hopefully come to agreement among the participants on
188 concepts in PM for both threats and mitigation, e.g.,
189 "opportunistic" as the term applies to cryptography.
191 o Discuss the PM threat model, and how that might be usefully
192 documented for the IETF at least, e.g., via an update to BCP72.
193 [7]
195 o Discuss and progress common understanding in the trade-offs
196 between mitigating and suffering PM.
198 o Identify weak links in the chain of Web security architecture with
199 respect to PM.
201 o Identify potential work items for the IETF, IAB, IRTF and W3C that
202 would help mitigate PM.
204 o Discuss the kinds of action outside the IETF/W3C context might
205 help those done within the IETF/W3C.
207 4. Workshop structure
209 The workshop structure was designed to maximise discussion time.
210 There were no direct presentations of submitted papers. Instead, the
211 moderators of each session summarised topics that the Technical
212 Programme Committee (TPC) had agreed based on the submitted papers.
213 These summary presentations took at most 50% of the session and
214 usually less.
216 Because the papers would not be presented during the workshop,
217 participants were asked to read and discuss the papers beforehand, at
218 least those relevant to their fields of interest. (To help people
219 choose papers to read, authors were asked to provide short
220 abstracts.)
222 Most of the sessions had two moderators, one to lead the discussion,
223 while the other managed the queue of people who wanted to speak.
224 This worked well: everybody got a chance to speak and each session
225 still ended on time.
227 The penultimate session consisted of break-outs (which turned out to
228 be the most productive sessions of all, most likely simply due to the
229 smaller numbers of people involved). The subjects for the break-outs
230 were agreed during the earlier sessions and just before the break-out
231 session the participants collectively determined who would attend
232 which.
234 5. Topics
236 The following sections contain summaries of the various sessions.
237 See the minutes (see Appendix B) for more details.
239 5.1. Opening session
241 The first session discussed the goals of the workshop. Possible
242 approaches to improving security in the light of pervasive monitoring
243 include a critical look at what metadata is actually required,
244 whether old (less secure) devices can be replaced with new ones, what
245 are "low-hanging fruit" (issues that can be handled quickly and
246 easily), and what level of security is "good enough": a good solution
247 may be one that is good for 90% of people or 90% of organisations.
249 Some participants felt that standards are needed so that people can
250 see if their systems conform to a certain level of security, and easy
251 to remember names are needed for those standards, so that a buyer can
252 immediately see that a product "conforms to the named intended
253 standard."
255 5.2. Threats
257 One difference between "traditional" attacks and pervasive monitoring
258 is modus-operandi of the attacker: typically, one determines what
259 resources an attacker might want to target and at what cost and then
260 one defends against that threat. But a pervasive attacker has no
261 specific targets, other than to collect everything he can. The
262 calculation of the cost of losing resources vs. the cost of
263 protecting them is thus different. And unlike someone motivated to
264 make money, a PM attacker may not be concerned at the cost of the
265 attack (or may even prefer a higher cost, for "empire building"
266 reasons").
268 The terminology used to talk about threats has to be chosen carefully
269 (this was a common theme in several sessions), because we need to
270 explain to people outside the technical community what they need to
271 do or not do. For example, authentication of endpoints doesn't so
272 much "protect against" man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks as make them
273 visible. The attacker can still attack, but it does not remain
274 invisible while he does so. Somebody on either end of the
275 conversation needs to react to the alert from the system: stop the
276 conversation or find a different channel.
278 An interesting paradox is the role of big repositories of
279 information, such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google, etc. Hopefully, they
280 supervise their security better than the average Internet server, but
281 they are also much more attractive as a target to attack. Avoiding
282 overuse of such repositories for private or sensitive information may
283 be a useful measure that increases the cost of collecting for a
284 pervasive attacker. This is sometimes called the target-dispersal
285 approach.
287 Lack of interoperability between systems is in itself a threat as it
288 leads to work-arounds and compromises that may be less secure. And
289 thus improving interoperability needs to be high on the list of
290 priorities of standards makers and even more for implementers. Of
291 course, testing, such as interop testing, is at some level, part of
292 the process of IETF and W3C; and W3C is currently increasing its
293 testing efforts.
295 5.3. Increase usage of security tools
297 The first session on Communication Security (COMSEC) tools looked at
298 the question why existing security tools aren't used more.
300 The example of HTTPS is informative: it provides encryption and
301 authentication and is widely available. In practice though, it is
302 far from being used as much as it could be. It also has some
303 problems. One problem is that certificate authorities (CA) are a
304 potential weak link in the system. Any CA can issue a certificate
305 for any server, and thus a single compromised CA can give a MITM the
306 power to impersonate any server. Moreover, certificates can cost
307 money, acquiring a certificate requires administrator time and
308 effort, and certificates need to be replaced when they expire, which
309 is not the normal case for web technologies, so many server
310 administrators forget or don't bother, making the certificate
311 infrastructure less relevant, and causing HTTPS to provide less
312 security.
314 Some ideas were discussed for improving the CA system, e.g., via
315 cross-certification of CAs and by means of "certificate
316 transparency": a public, permanent log of who issued which
317 certificate. [RFC6962]
319 Using other models than the hierarchical certificate model (as
320 alternative or in combination) may also help. The PGP model, e.g.,
321 is a flat network where people verify the identity (public key) of
322 people they meet. And then they trust, to a certain level, that
323 those people verified the identity of other people. This works for
324 certain types of communication (it was more deployed for e-mail).
325 However, an identity only verified by a friend of a friend provides a
326 lower level of trust.
328 Yet another model is "trust on first use" (TOFU). This is used quite
329 effectively by SSH [RFC4252]. On the first connection, one has no
330 way to verify that the received public key belongs to the server one
331 is contacting, therefore, the key is accepted without further
332 verification. But on the subsequent connections, one can verify that
333 the received key is the same key as the first time. So a MITM has to
334 be there on all connections, including the first, otherwise it will
335 be detected by a key mismatch.
337 This works well for SSH, because people typically use SSH to
338 communicate with a small number of servers over and over again. And,
339 if they want, they may find a separate channel to get the public key
340 (or its fingerprint). It may also work for Web servers used by small
341 groups (the server of a sports club, a department of a company,
342 etc.), but probably works less well for public servers that are
343 visited once or a few times or for large services where many servers
344 may be used.
346 A similar proposal [draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning] for an HTTP header
347 introduces an aspect of TOFU into HTTP: Key pinning tells HTTP
348 clients that for a certain time after receiving this certificate,
349 they should not expect the certificate to change. If it does, even
350 if the new certificate looks valid, the client should assume a
351 security breach.
353 SIP [RFC3261] is a complex protocol, in part because it potentially
354 needs several different intermediaries in different stages of the
355 communication to deal with NAT traversal and to handle policy. SIP
356 provides hop-by-hop encryption and end-to-end authentication in
357 theory, but in practice many SIP providers disable these functions
358 and interoperability for end-to-end security in SIP is perhaps not in
359 a good state. The reasons for disabling end-to-end security here are
360 understandable: to overcome lack of interoperability they often need
361 to change protocol headers and modify protocol data. Some workshop
362 participants argued that SIP would never have taken off if it hadn't
363 been possible for providers to monitor and interfere in
364 communications in this way. Of course, that means an attacker can
365 listen in just as easily.
367 A new protocol for peer-to-peer communication of video and audio (and
368 potentially other data) is WebRTC. WebRTC re-uses many of the same
369 architectural concepts as SIP, but there is a reasonable chance that
370 it can do better in terms of protecting users: The people
371 implementing the protocols and offering the service have different
372 goals and interests. In particular, the first implementers are
373 browser makers, who may have different business models from other
374 more traditional Voice over IP providers.
376 XMPP[RFC6120] suffers from yet another problem. It has encryption
377 and authentication, and the OTR ("off the record") extension even
378 provides what is called Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS, compromising
379 the current communication never gives an attacker enough information
380 to decrypt past communications that he may have recorded). But, in
381 practice, many people don't use XMPP at all, but rather Skype,
382 WhatsApp or other instant-messaging tools with unknown or no
383 security. The problem here seems to be one of user awareness. And
384 though OTR does provide security, it is not well integrated with XMPP
385 and nor is it available as a core feature of XMPP clients.
387 To increase usage of existing solutions, some tasks can be
388 identified, though how those map to actions for e.g. IETF/W3C is not
389 clear:
391 o Improvements to the certificate system, such as certificate
392 transparency (CT).
394 o Making it easier (cheaper, quicker) for system administrators to
395 deploy secure solutions.
397 o Improve awareness of the risks. Identify which communities
398 influence which decisions and what is the appropriate message for
399 each.
401 o Provide an upgrade path that doesn't break existing systems or
402 require that everybody upgrade at the same time. Opportunistic
403 Security may be one model for that.
405 5.4. Policy issues and non-technical actions
407 Previous sessions already concluded that the problem isn't just
408 technical, such as getting the right algorithms in the standards,
409 fixing interoperability, or educating implementers and systems
410 administrators. There are user interface issues and education issues
411 too. And there are also legal issues and policy issues for
412 governments.
414 It appears that the public in general demand more privacy and
415 security (e.g., for their children) but are also pessimistic about
416 getting that. They trust that somebody assures that nothing bad
417 happens to them, but they also expect to be spied on all the time.
419 (Perceived) threats of terrorism gave governments a reason to allow
420 widespread surveillance, far beyond what may previously have been
421 considered dangerous for freedom.
423 In this environment, the technical community will have a hard time
424 developing and deploying technologies that fully counter PM, which
425 means there has to be action in the social and political spheres,
426 too.
428 Technology isn't the only thing that can make life harder for
429 attackers. Government-sponsored PM is indirectly affected by trade
430 agreements and treaties and thus it makes sense to lobby for those to
431 be as privacy-friendly as possible.
433 Court cases on the grounds of human rights can also influence policy,
434 especially if they reach, for example, the European Court of Human
435 Rights.
437 In medicine and law, it is common to have ethics committees, not so
438 in software. Should standards bodies such as IETF and W3C have an
439 ethics committee? Standards such as the Geolocation API
440 [w3c-geo-api] have gotten scrutiny from privacy experts, but only in
441 an ad-hoc manner. (W3C has permanent groups to review standards for
442 accessibility and internationalisation. It also has a Privacy group,
443 but that currently doesn't do the same kind of systematic reviews.)
445 As the Internet Draft draft-barnes-pervasive-problem-00 (included as
446 paper 44 [8]) explains, PM doesn't just monitor the networks, but
447 also attacks at the endpoints, turning organisations or people into
448 (willing, unwilling, or unwitting) collaborators. One technical
449 means of protection is thus to design protocols such that there are
450 fewer potential collaborators, e.g., a provider of cloud storage
451 cannot hand over plaintext for content that is encrypted with a key
452 he doesn't have, and cannot hand over names if his client is
453 anonymous.
455 It is important to distinguish between PM and fighting crime. PM is
456 an attack, but a judge ordering the surveillance of a suspected
457 criminal is not. The latter, often abbreviated in this context as LI
458 (for Lawful Intercept), is outside the scope of this workshop.
460 5.5. Improving the tools
462 An earlier session discussed why existing COMSEC tools weren't used
463 more. This second session on COMSEC therefore discussed what
464 improvements and/or new tools were needed.
466 Discussion at the workshop indicated that an important meta-tool for
467 improving existing security technology could be Opportunistic
468 Security (OS) [I-D.kent-opportunistic-security]. The idea is that
469 software is enhanced with a module that tries to encrypt
470 communications when it detects that the other end also has the same
471 capability but otherwise lets the communication continue in the old
472 way. The detailed definition of OS is being discussed by the IETF
473 security area at the time of this workshop [saag].
475 OS would protect against a passive eavesdropper but should also allow
476 for endpoint authentication to protect against an active attacker (a
477 MITM). As OS spreads, more and more communications would be
478 encrypted (and hopefully authenticated) and thus there is less and
479 less for an eavesdropper to collect.
481 Of course, an implementation of OS could give a false sense of
482 security as well: some connections are encrypted, some are not. A
483 user might see something like a padlock icon in browsers, but there
484 was agreement at the workshop that such user interface features ought
485 not be changed because OS is being used.
487 There is also the possibility that a MITM intercepts the reply from a
488 server that says "yes, I can do encryption" and removes it, causing
489 the client to fall back to an unencrypted protocol. Mitigations
490 against this can be to have other channels of finding out a server's
491 capabilities and remembering that a server could do encryption
492 previously.
494 There is also, again, a terminology problem. The technical
495 descriptions of OS talk about "silent fail" when a connection
496 couldn't be encrypted and has to fall back to the old, unencrypted
497 protocol. Actually, it's not a fail; it's no worse than it was
498 before. A successful encryption would rather be a "silent
499 improvement."
501 That raises the question of the UI: How do you explain to a user what
502 their security options are, and, in case an error occurs, how do you
503 explain the implications of the various responses?
505 The people working on encryption are mathematicians and engineers,
506 and typically not the same people who know about UI. We need to
507 involve the experts. We also need to distinguish between usability
508 of the UI, user understanding, and user experience. For an
509 e-commerce site, e.g., it is not just important that the user's data
510 is technically safe, but also that he feels secure. Otherwise he
511 still won't buy anything.
513 When talking about users, we also need to distinguish the end user
514 (who we typically think about when we talk about UI) from the server
515 administrators and other technical people involved in enabling a
516 connection. When something goes wrong (e.g., the user's software
517 detects an invalid certificate), the message usually goes to the end
518 user. But he isn't necessarily the person who can do something about
519 it. E.g., if the problem is a certificate that expired yesterday,
520 the options for the user are to break the connection (the safe
521 choice, but it means he can't get his work done) or continue anyway
522 (there could be a MITM...). The server administrator, on the other
523 hand, could actually solve the problem.
525 Encryption and authentication have a cost, in terms of setting them
526 up, but also in terms of the time it takes for software to do the
527 calculations. The set-up cost can be reduced with sensible defaults,
528 predefined profiles and cut-and-paste configurations. And for some
529 connections, authentication without encryption could be enough, in
530 the case that the data doesn't need to be kept secret, but it is
531 important to know that it is the real data. Most mail user agents
532 (UA) already provide independent options for encryption and signing,
533 but Web servers only support authentication if the connection is also
534 encrypted.
536 On the other hand, as e-mail also shows, it is difficult for users to
537 understand what encryption and authentication do separately.
539 And it also has to be kept in mind that encrypting only the
540 "sensitive" data and not the rest decreases the cost for an attacker,
541 too: It becomes easy to know which connections are worth attacking.
542 Selective field confidentiality is also more prone to lead to
543 developer error, as not all developers will know the provenance of
544 values to be processed.
546 One problem with the TOFU model as used by SSH (see explanation
547 above) is that it lacks a solution for key continuity: When a key is
548 changed (which can happen, e.g., when a server is replaced or the
549 software upgraded), there is no way to inform the client. (In
550 practice, people use other means, such as calling people on the phone
551 or asking their colleagues in the office, but that doesn't scale and
552 doesn't always happen either.) An improvement in the SSH protocol
553 could thus be a way to transfer a new key to a client in a safe way.
555 5.6. Hiding metadata
557 Encryption and authentication help protect the content of messages.
558 Correctly implemented encryption is very hard to crack. (To get the
559 content, an attacker would rather attempt to steal the keys, corrupt
560 the encoding software, or get the content via a collaborator.) But
561 encrypting the content doesn't hide the fact that you are
562 communicating. This metadata (who talks to whom, when and for how
563 long) is often as interesting as the content itself, and in some
564 cases the size and timing of messages is even an accurate predictor
565 of the content. So how to stop an attacker from collecting metadata,
566 given that much of that data is actually needed by routers and other
567 services to deliver the message to the right place?
569 It is useful to distinguish different kinds of metadata: explicit (or
570 metadata proper) and implicit (sometimes called traffic data).
571 Implicit metadata is things that can be derived from a message or are
572 necessary for its delivery, such as the destination address, the
573 size, the time, or the frequency with which messages pass. Explicit
574 metadata is things like quality ratings, provenance or copyright
575 data: data about the data, useful for an application, but not
576 required to deliver the data to its endpoint.
578 A system such as Tor hides much of the metadata by passing through
579 several servers, encrypting all the data except that which a
580 particular server needs to see. Each server thus knows which server
581 a message came from and where he has to send it to, but cannot know
582 where the previous server got it from or where the next server is
583 instructed to send it. However, deliberately passing through
584 multiple servers makes the communication slower than taking the most
585 direct route and increases the amount of traffic the network as a
586 whole has to process.
588 There are three kinds of measures that can be taken to make metadata
589 harder to get: aggregation, contraflow and multipath (see paper 4
590 [9]). New protocols should be designed such that these measures are
591 not inadvertently disallowed, e.g., because the design assumes that
592 the whole of a conversation passes through the same route.
594 "Aggregation" means collecting conversations from multiple sources
595 into one stream. E.g., if HTTP connections pass through a proxy, all
596 the conversations appear to come from the proxy instead of from their
597 original sources. (This assumes that telltale information in the
598 headers is stripped by the proxy, or that the connection is
599 encrypted.) It also works in the other direction: if multiple Web
600 sites are hosted on the same server, an attacker cannot see which of
601 those Web sites a user is reading. (This assumes that the name of
602 the site is in the path info of the URL and not in the domain name,
603 otherwise watching DNS queries can still reveal the name.)
605 "Contraflow" means routing a conversation via one or more other
606 servers than the normal route, e.g., by using a tunnel (e.g., with
607 SSH or a VPN) to another server. Tor is an example of this. An
608 attacker must watch more routes and do more effort to correlate
609 conversations. (Again, this assumes that there is no telltale
610 information left in the messages that leave the tunnel.)
612 "Multipath" splits up a single conversation (or a set of related
613 conversations) and routes the parts in different ways. E.g., sending
614 a request via a satellite link and receiving the response via a land
615 line; or starting a conversation on a cellular link and continuing it
616 via Wi-Fi. This again increases the cost for an attacker, who has to
617 monitor and correlate multiple networks.
619 Protecting metadata automatically with technology at a lower layer
620 than the application layer is difficult. The applications themselves
621 need to pass less data, e.g., use anonymous temporary handles instead
622 of permanent identifiers. There is often no real need for people to
623 use the same identifier on different computers (smartphone, desktop,
624 etc.) other than that the application they use was designed that way.
626 One thing that can be done relatively easily in the short term is to
627 go through existing protocols to check what data they send that isn't
628 really necessary. One candidate mentioned for such a study was XMPP.
630 "Fingerprinting" is the process of distinguishing different senders
631 of messages based on metadata: Clients can be recognised (or at least
632 grouped) because their messages always have a combination of features
633 that other clients do not have. Reducing redundant metadata and
634 reducing the number of optional features in a protocol reduces the
635 variation between clients and thus makes fingerprinting harder.
637 Traffic analysis is a research discipline that produces sometimes
638 surprising findings, which are little known among protocol
639 developers. Some collections of results are
641 o A selected bibliography on anonymity [10] by the Free Haven
642 Project,
644 o The yearly Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS)
645 [11], and
647 o The yearly Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
648 [12].
650 Techniques that deliberately change the timing or size of messages,
651 such as padding, can also help reduce fingerprinting. Obviously,
652 they make conversations slower and/or use more bandwidth, but in some
653 cases that is not an issue, e.g., if the conversation is limited by
654 the speed of a human user anyway. HTTP/2 has a built-in padding
655 mechanism. However, it is not so easy to use these techniques well,
656 and not actually make messages easier to recognise rather than
657 harder.
659 Different users in different contexts may have different security
660 needs, so maybe the priority can be a user choice (if that can be
661 done without making high-security users stand out from other users).
662 Although many people would not understand what their choices are,
663 some do, such as political activists or journalists.
665 5.7. Deployment, intermediaries and middleboxes
667 Secure protocols have often been designed in the past for end-to-end
668 security: Intermediaries cannot read or modify the messages. This is
669 the model behind TLS for example.
671 In practice, however, people have more or less valid reasons to
672 insist on intermediaries: companies filtering incoming and outgoing
673 traffic for viruses or other reasons, giving priority to certain
674 communications or caching to reduce bandwidth.
676 In the presence of end-to-end encryption and authentication, these
677 intermediaries have two choices: use fake certificates to impersonate
678 the endpoints or have access to the private keys of the endpoints.
679 The former is a MITM attack that is difficult to distinguish from a
680 more malicious one, and the latter obviously decreases the security
681 of the endpoints by copying supposedly protected data and
682 concentrating such data in a single place.
684 As mentioned in Section 5.2 above, aggregation of data in a single
685 place makes that place an attractive target. And in the case of PM
686 even if the data is not concentrated physically in one place, it is
687 under control of a single legal entity that can be made into a
688 collaborator.
690 The way Web communication with TLS typically works is that the client
691 authenticates the server, but the server does not authenticate the
692 client at the TLS layer. (If the client needs to be identified, that
693 is mainly done at the application layer via passwords or cookies.)
694 Thus the presence of a MITM (middlebox) could be detected by the
695 client (because of the incorrect certificate), but not by the server.
696 If the client doesn't immediately close the connection (which they do
697 not in many cases), the server may thus disclose information that the
698 user would rather not have disclosed.
700 One widespread example of middleboxes is captive portals, as found on
701 the Wi-Fi hotspots in hotels, airports, etc. Even the hotspots
702 offering free access often intercept communications to redirect the
703 user to a login or policy page.
705 When the communication they intercept is, e.g., the automatic update
706 of your calendar program or a chat session, the redirect obviously
707 doesn't work: these applications don't know how to display a Web
708 page. With the increasing use of applications, it may be a while
709 before the user actually opens a browser. The flood of error
710 messages may also have as a result that the user no longer reads the
711 errors, allowing an actual malicious attack to go unnoticed.
713 Some operating systems now come with heuristics that try to recognise
714 captive portals and either automatically login or show their login
715 page in a separate application. (But some hotspot providers
716 apparently don't want automatic logins and actually reverse-
717 engineered the heuristics to try and fool them.)
719 It seems some protocol is missing in this case. Captive portals
720 shouldn't have to do MITM attacks to be noticed. Something like an
721 extension to DHCP that tells a connecting device about the login page
722 may help, although that still doesn't solve the problem for devices
723 that do not have a Web browser, such as game consoles or SIP phones.
724 HTTP response code 511 (defined in [RFC6585]) is another attempt at a
725 partial solution (Partial, because it can only work at the moment the
726 user uses a browser to connect to a Web site and doesn't use HTTPS).
728 A practical problem with deployment of such a protocol may be that
729 many such captive portals are very old and never updated. The hotel
730 staff only knows how to reboot the system and as long as it works,
731 the hotel has no incentive to buy a new one. As evidence of this:
732 how many such systems require you to get a password and the ticket
733 shows the price as zero? This is typically because the owner doesn't
734 know how to reconfigure the hotspot, but he does know how to change
735 the price in his cash register.
737 5.8. Break-out 1 - research
739 Despite some requests earlier in the workshop, the research break-out
740 did not discuss clean-slate approaches. The challenge was rather
741 that the relationship between security research and standardisation
742 needs improvement. Research on linkability is not yet well known in
743 the IETF. But the other side of the coin needs improvement too:
744 While doing protocol design, standardisation should indicate what
745 specific problems are in need of more research.
747 The break-out then made a non-exclusive list of topics that are in
748 need of further research:
750 o The interaction of compression and encryption as demonstrated by
751 the CRIME SSL/TLS vulnerability [13]
753 o A more proactive deprecation of algorithms based on research
754 results
756 o Mitigation for return-oriented programming attacks
758 o How to better obfuscate so called "metadata"
760 o How to make the existence of traffic and their endpoints stealthy
762 5.9. Break-out 2 - clients
764 Browsers are the first clients one thinks of when talking about
765 encrypted connections, authentication and certificates, but there are
766 many others.
768 Other common case of "false" alarms for MITM (after captive portals)
769 include expired and mis-configured certificates. This is quite
770 common in intranets, when the sysadmin hasn't bothered updating a
771 certificate and rather tells his handful of users to just "click
772 continue." The problem is on the one hand that users may not
773 understand the difference between this case and the same error
774 message when they connect to a server outside the company, and on the
775 other hand that the incorrect certificate installed by the sysadmin
776 is not easily distinguishable from an incorrect certificate from a
777 MITM. The error message is almost the same and the user may just
778 click continue again.
780 One way to get rid of such certificates is if client software no
781 longer offers the option to continue after a certificate error. That
782 requires that all major clients (such as browsers) change their
783 behaviour at the same time, otherwise the first one to do so will be
784 considered broken by users, because the others still work. Also it
785 requires a period in which that software gives increasingly strong
786 warnings about the cut-off date after which the connection will fail
787 with this certificate.
789 Yet another source of error messages is self-signed certificates.
790 Such certificates are actually only errors for sites that are not
791 expected to have them. If a message about a self-signed certificate
792 appears when connecting to Facebook or Google, you're clearly not
793 connected to the real Facebook or Google. But for a personal Website
794 it shouldn't cause such scary warnings. There may be ways to improve
795 the explanations in the error message and provide an easy way to
796 verify the certificate (by e-mail, over the phone or some other
797 channel) and trust it.
799 5.10. Break-out 3 - on by default
801 One step in improving security is to require the relevant features,
802 in particular encryption and authentication, to be implemented in
803 compliant products: The features are labelled as MUST in the standard
804 rather than MAY. This is sometimes referred to as Mandatory To
805 Implement (MTI) and is the current practice for IETF
806 protocols[RFC3365].
808 But that may not be enough to counter PM. It may be that the
809 features are there, but not used, because only very knowledgeable
810 users or sysadmins turn them on. Or it may be that implementations
811 do not actually follow the MTI parts of specifications. Or it may be
812 that some security features are implemented but interoperability for
813 those doesn't really work. Or, even worse, it may be that protocol
814 designers have only followed the letter of the MTI best practice and
815 not its spirit, with the result that security features are hard to
816 use or make deployment harder. One can thus argue that such features
817 should be defined to be on by default.
819 Going further one might argue that these features should not even be
820 options, i.e., there should be no way to turn them off. This is
821 sometimes called Mandatory To Use (MTU).
823 The question raised at this session was for what protocols on-by-
824 default is appropriate, and how can one explain to the developers of
825 such protocols that it is needed?
827 There would of course be resistance to MTU security from implemeters
828 and deployments that practice deep packet inspection (DPI) and also
829 perhaps from some governments. On the other hand, there may also be
830 governments that outlaw protocols without proper encryption.
832 This break-out concluded that there could be value in attempting to
833 document a new Best Current Practice for the IETF that moves from the
834 current MTI position to one where security features are on-by-
835 default. Some of the workshop participants expressed interest in
836 authoring a draft for such a new BCP and progressing that through the
837 IETF consensus process (where it would no doubt be controversial).
839 5.11. Break-out 4 - measurement
841 There was a small break-out on the idea of measurement as a way to
842 encourage or gamify the increased use of security mechanisms.
844 5.12. Break-out 5 - opportunistic
846 This break out considered the use of the term "opportunistic" as it
847 applies to cryptographic security and attempted to progress the work
848 towards arriving at an agreed-upon definition for use of that term,
849 at it applies to IETF and W3C work.
851 While various terms had been used, with many people talking about
852 opportunistic encryption, that usage was felt to be problematic both
853 because it conflicted with the use of the same term in [RFC4322] and
854 because it was being used differently in different parts of the
855 community.
857 At the session it was felt that the term "opportunistic keying" was
858 better, but as explained above subsequent list discussion resulted in
859 a move to the term "Opportunistic Security" (OS).
861 Aside from terminology, disussion focused on the use of Diffie-
862 Hellman (D-H) key exchange as the preferred mechanism of OS, with
863 fall back to cleartext if D-H doesn't succeed as a counter for
864 passive attacks.
866 There was also of course the desire to be able to easily escalate
867 from countering passive attacks to also handling endpoint
868 authentication and thereby also countering MITM attacks.
870 Making OS visible to users was again considered to be undesirable, as
871 users could not be expected to distinguish between cleartext, OS and
872 (one-sided or mutual) endpoint authentication.
874 Finally, it was noted that it may take some effort to establish how
875 middleboxes might affect OS at different layers and that OS really is
876 not suitable as the only migitation to use for high-sensitivity
877 sessions such as financial transactions.
879 5.13. Unofficial Transport/Routing Break-out
881 Some routing and transport area directors felt a little left out by
882 all the application layer break-outs, so they had their own
883 brainstorm about what could be done at the Transport and Routing
884 layers from which these notes resulted.
886 The LEDBAT [RFC6817] protocol was targeted towards a bulk-transfer
887 service that is reordering and delay insensitive. Use of LDEBAT
888 could offer the following benefits for an application:
890 a. Because it is reordering-insensitive, traffic can be sprayed
891 across a large number of forwarding paths. Assuming such
892 different paths exist, this would make it more challenging to
893 capture and analyze a full interaction.
895 b. The application can vary the paths by indicating per packet a
896 different flow. In IPv6, this can be done via different IPv6
897 flow labels. For IPv4, this can be done by encapsulating the IP
898 packet into UDP and varying the UDP source port.
900 c. Since LEDBAT is delay-insensitive and applications using it would
901 need to be as well, it would be possible to obfuscate the
902 application signatures by varying the packet lengths and
903 frequency.
905 d. This can also hide the transport header (for IP in UDP).
907 e. If the Reverse Path Forwarding(RPF)[RFC3704] check problem can be
908 fixed, perhaps the source could be hidden, however it assumes the
909 trafic is within trusted perimeters.
911 f. The use of LEDBAT is orthogonal to the use of encryption and
912 provides different benefits (harder to intercept the whole
913 conversation, ability to obfuscate the traffic analysis), and
914 also has different costs (longer latency, new transport protocol
915 usage) to its users.
917 The idea of encrypting traffic from customer edge (CE) to CE as part
918 of an L3VPN or such was also discussed. This could allow hiding of
919 addresses, including source, and headers. From conversation with Ron
920 Bonica, some customers already do encryption (though not hiding the
921 source address) like this. So, it is unclear that this is very
922 practically useful as an enhancement except for encouraging
923 deployment and use.
925 Finally, it was discussed whether it would be useful to have a means
926 of communicating where and what layers are doing encryption on an
927 application's traffic path. The initial idea of augmenting ICMP has
928 some issues (not visible to application, ICMP packets frequently
929 filtered) as well as potential work (determining how to trust the
930 report of encryption). It would be interesting to understand if such
931 communication is actually needed and what the requirements would be.
933 6. After the workshop
935 Holding the workshop just before the IETF had the intended effect: a
936 number of people went to both the workshop and the IETF, and they
937 took the opportunity of being together at the IETF to continue the
938 discussions.
940 IETF Working groups meeting in London took the recommendations from
941 the workshop into account. It was even the first item in the report
942 about the IETF meeting by the IETF chair, Jari Arkko:
944 "Strengthening the security and privacy of the Internet continued
945 to draw a lot of attention. The STRINT workshop organised by the
946 IAB and W3C just before the IETF attracted 100 participants and
947 over 60 papers. Even more people would have joined us, but there
948 was no space. During the IETF meeting, we continued discussing
949 the topic at various working groups. A while ago we created the
950 first working group specifically aimed at addressing some of the
951 issues surrounding pervasive monitoring. The Using TLS for
952 Applications (UTA) working group had its first meeting in London.
954 But many other working groups also address these issues in their
955 own work. The TCPM working group discussed a proposal to add
956 opportunistic keying mechanisms directly onto the TCP protocol.
957 And the DNSE BOF considered the possibility of adding
958 confidentiality support to DNS queries. Finally, there is an
959 ongoing effort to review old specifications to search for areas
960 that might benefit from taking privacy and data minimisation
961 better into account."[Arkko1]
963 Two papers that were written for the workshop, but not finished in
964 time, are worth mentioning, too: One by the same Jari Arkko, titled
965 "Privacy and Networking Functions" [Arkko2]; and one by Johan
966 Pouwelse, "The Shadow Internet: liberation from Surveillance,
967 Censorship and Servers" [draft-pouwelse-perpass-shadow-internet]
969 7. IANA considerations
971 There are none. We hope the RFC editor deletes this section.
973 8. Security considerations
975 This document does not define a technology but is all about security
976 and privacy.
978 9. References
980 9.1. Informative references
982 [Arkko1] Arkko, J., "IETF-89 Summary", March 2014,
983 .
985 [Arkko2] Arkko, J., "Privacy and Networking Functions", March 2014,
986 .
989 (Work in progress.)
991 [draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning]
992 Evans, C., Palmer, C., and R. Sleevi, "Public Key Pinning
993 Extension for HTTP", February 2014.
995 (Work in progress.)
997 [draft-pouwelse-perpass-shadow-internet]
998 Pouwelse, J., Ed., "The Shadow Internet: liberation from
999 Surveillance, Censorship and Servers", February 2014,
1000 .
1003 (Work in progress.)
1005 [I-D.barnes-pervasive-problem]
1006 Barnes, R., Schneier, B., Jennings, C., and T. Hardie,
1007 "Pervasive Attack: A Threat Model and Problem Statement",
1008 draft-barnes-pervasive-problem-01 (work in progress), July
1009 2014.
1011 [I-D.kent-opportunistic-security]
1012 Kent, S., "Opportunistic Security as a Countermeasure to
1013 Pervasive Monitoring", draft-kent-opportunistic-
1014 security-01 (work in progress), April 2014.
1016 [RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
1017 A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
1018 Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
1019 June 2002.
1021 [RFC3365] Schiller, J., "Strong Security Requirements for Internet
1022 Engineering Task Force Standard Protocols", BCP 61, RFC
1023 3365, August 2002.
1025 [RFC3552] Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC
1026 Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552, July
1027 2003.
1029 [RFC3704] Baker, F. and P. Savola, "Ingress Filtering for Multihomed
1030 Networks", BCP 84, RFC 3704, March 2004.
1032 [RFC4252] Ylonen, T. and C. Lonvick, "The Secure Shell (SSH)
1033 Authentication Protocol", RFC 4252, January 2006.
1035 [RFC4322] Richardson, M. and D. Redelmeier, "Opportunistic
1036 Encryption using the Internet Key Exchange (IKE)", RFC
1037 4322, December 2005.
1039 [RFC6120] Saint-Andre, P., "Extensible Messaging and Presence
1040 Protocol (XMPP): Core", RFC 6120, March 2011.
1042 [RFC6585] Nottingham, M. and R. Fielding, "Additional HTTP Status
1043 Codes", RFC 6585, April 2012.
1045 [RFC6817] Shalunov, S., Hazel, G., Iyengar, J., and M. Kuehlewind,
1046 "Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)", RFC 6817,
1047 December 2012.
1049 [RFC6962] Laurie, B., Langley, A., and E. Kasper, "Certificate
1050 Transparency", RFC 6962, June 2013.
1052 [RFC7258] Farrell, S. and H. Tschofenig, "Pervasive Monitoring Is an
1053 Attack", BCP 188, RFC 7258, May 2014.
1055 [RFC7435] Dukhovni, V., "Opportunistic Security: Some Protection
1056 Most of the Time", RFC 7435, December 2014.
1058 [saag] Area, S., "IETF Security Area mailing list", March 2014,
1059 .
1062 [vancouverplenary]
1063 IETF, , "IETF 88 Technical Plenary Minutes",
1064 .
1067 [w3c-geo-api]
1068 Popescu, A., "Geolocation API Specification", October
1069 2013, .
1071 9.2. URIs
1073 [1] http://www.w3.org/
1075 [2] https://www.iab.org/
1077 [3] https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/Overview.html
1079 [4] https://www.ietf.org/meeting/89/index.html
1081 [5] http://www.strews.eu/
1083 [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
1085 [7] http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp72
1087 [8] https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/papers/44.pdf
1089 [9] https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/papers/04.pdf
1091 [10] http://freehaven.net/anonbib/
1093 [11] http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~Ley/db/conf/pet/index.html
1095 [12] http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~Ley/db/conf/wpes/index.html
1097 [13] https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/09/14/crime
1098 -information-leakage-attack-against-ssltls
1100 [14] http://www.strews.eu/
1102 [15] http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
1104 [16] http://blog.digital.telefonica.com/
1106 [17] https://www.ietf.org/meeting/89/index.html
1108 [18] http://lists.i1b.org/pipermail/strint-attendees-i1b.org/
1110 [19] https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/
1112 [20] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23strint
1114 [21] http://www.w3.org/2014/02/28-strint-minutes.html
1116 [22] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s0-welcome.pdf
1118 [23] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s1-threat.pdf
1120 [24] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s2-comsec.pdf
1122 [25] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s3-policy.pdf
1124 [26] http://www.w3.org/2014/03/01-strint-minutes.html
1126 [27] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s4-opportunistic.pdf
1128 [28] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s5-1metadata-pironti.pdf
1130 [29] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s5-2metadata-hardie.pdf
1132 [30] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s5-3metadata-cooper.pdf
1134 [31] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/strint-slides/s6-deploy.pdf
1136 [32] https://www.w3.org/2014/strint/slides/summary.pdf
1138 [33] https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Stephen.Farrell/
1140 [34] http://www.w3.org/People/Rigo/
1142 [35] http://www.tschofenig.priv.at/wp/?page_id=5
1144 Appendix A. Logistics
1146 The workshop was organised by the STREWS [14] project (a research
1147 project funded under the European Union's 7th Framework Programme
1148 [15]), as the first of two workshops in its work plan. The
1149 organisers were supported by the IAB and W3C, and, for the local
1150 organisation, by Telefonica Digital. [16]
1152 One of the suggestions in the project description of the STREWS
1153 project was to attach the first workshop to an IETF meeting. The
1154 best opportunity was IETF 89 [17] in London, which would begin on
1155 Sunday March 2, 2014. Telefonica Digital offered meeting rooms at
1156 its offices in central London for the preceding Friday and Saturday,
1157 just minutes away from the IETF's location.
1159 The room held 100 people, which was thought to be sufficient. There
1160 turned out to be more interest than expected and we could have filled
1161 a larger room, but 100 people is probably an upper limit for good
1162 discussions anyway.
1164 Apart from the usual equipment in the room (projector, white boards,
1165 microphones, coffee...), we also set up some extra communication
1166 channels:
1168 o A mailing list where participants could discuss the agenda and the
1169 published papers about three weeks in advance of the workshop
1170 itself. (Only participants were allowed to write to the mailing
1171 list, but the archive [18] is public.)
1173 o Publicly advertised streaming audio (one-way only). At some
1174 point, no less than 165 people were listening.
1176 o An IRC channel for live minute taking, passing links and other
1177 information, and as a help for remote participants to follow the
1178 proceedings.
1180 o An Etherpad, where the authors of papers could provide an abstract
1181 of their submissions, to help participants who could not read all
1182 66 papers in full in advance of the workshop. The abstracts were
1183 also used on the workshop's Web site [19].
1185 o A "Twitter hashtag" (#strint). Four weeks after the workshop,
1186 there were still a few new messages [20] about events related to
1187 workshop topics.
1189 Appendix B. Agenda
1191 This was the final agenda of the workshop, as determined by the TPC
1192 and participants on the mailing list prior to the workshop. The
1193 included links are to the slides that the moderators used to
1194 introduce each discussion topic and to the minutes.
1196 B.1. Friday 28 February
1198 Minutes [21]
1200 Workshop starts, welcome, logistics, opening/overview [slides]
1201 [22]
1203 * Goal is to plan how we respond to PM threats
1205 * Specific questions to be discussed in sessions
1207 * Outcomes are actions for IETF, W3C, IRTF, etc.
1209 I. Threats - What problem are we trying to solve? (Presenter:
1210 Richard Barnes; Moderator: Cullen Jennings) [slides] [23]
1212 * What attacks have been described? (Attack taxonomy)
1214 * What should we assume the attackers' capabilities are?
1216 * When is it really "pervasive monitoring" and when is it not?
1218 * Scoping - what's in and what's out? (for IETF/W3C)
1220 II. COMSEC 1 - How can we increase usage of current COMSEC tools?
1221 (Presenter: Hannes Tschofenig; Moderator: Leif Johansson) [slides]
1222 [24]
1224 * Whirlwind catalog of current tools
1226 * Why aren't people using them? In what situations are / aren't
1227 they used?
1229 * Securing AAA and management protocols - why not?
1231 * How can we (IETF/W3C/community) encourage more/better use?
1233 III. Policy - What policy / legal/ other issues need to be taken
1234 into account? (Presenter: Christine Runnegar; Moderator: Rigo
1235 Wenning) [slides] [25]
1236 * What non-technical activities do we need to be aware of?
1238 * How might such non-technical activities impact on IETF/W3C?
1240 * How might IETF/W3C activities impact on those non-technical
1241 activities?
1243 Session IV - Saturday plan, open-mic, wrap up day
1245 B.2. Saturday 1 March
1247 Minutes [26]
1249 IV. COMSEC 2 - What improvements to COMSEC tools are
1250 needed?(Presenter: Mark Nottingham; Moderator: Steve Bellovin)
1251 [slides] [27]
1253 * Opportunistic encryption - what is it and where it might apply
1255 * Mitigations aiming to block PM vs. detect PM - when to try
1256 which?
1258 V. Metadata - How can we reduce the metadata that protocols
1259 expose? (Presenter: Alfredo Pironti [slides] [28] / Ted Hardie
1260 [slides] [29]; Moderator: Alissa Cooper [slides] [30])
1262 * Meta-data, fingerprinting, minimisation
1264 * What's out there?
1266 * How can we do better?
1268 VI. Deployment - How can we address PM in deployment /
1269 operations? (Presenter: Eliot Lear; Moderator: Barry Leiba)
1270 [slides] [31]
1272 * "Mega"-commercial services (clouds, large scale email & SN,
1273 SIP, WebRTC...)
1275 * Target dispersal - good goal or wishful thinking?
1277 * Middleboxes: when a help and when a hindrance?
1279 VII. 3 x Break-out Sessions / Bar-Camp style (Hannes Tschofenig)
1281 * Content to be defined during meeting, as topics come up
1283 * Sum up at the end to gather conclusions for report
1284 Break-outs:
1286 1. Research Questions (Moderator: Kenny Paterson)
1288 + Do we need more/different crypto tools?
1290 + How can applications make better use of COMSEC tools?
1292 + What research topics could be handled in IRTF?
1294 + What other research would help?
1296 2. clients
1298 3. on by default
1300 4. measuring
1302 5. opportunistic
1304 VIII. Break-out reports, Open mic & Conclusions - What are we
1305 going to do to address PM? [slides] [32]
1307 * Gather conclusions / recommendations / goals from earlier
1308 sessions
1310 Appendix C. Workshop chairs & program committee
1312 The workshop chairs were three: Stephen Farrell [33] (TCD) and Rigo
1313 Wenning [34] (W3C) from the STREWS project, and Hannes Tschofenig
1314 [35] (ARM) from the STREWS Interest Group.
1316 A program committee (PC) was charged with evaluating the submitted
1317 papers. It was made up of the members of the STREWS project, the
1318 members of the STREWS Interest Group, plus invited experts: Bernard
1319 Aboba (Microsoft), Dan Appelquist (Telefonica & W3C TAG), Richard
1320 Barnes (Mozilla), Bert Bos (W3C), Lieven Desmet (KU Leuven), Karen
1321 O'Donoghue (ISOC), Russ Housley (Vigil Security), Martin Johns (SAP),
1322 Ben Laurie (Google), Eliot Lear (Cisco), Kenny Paterson (Royal
1323 Holloway), Eric Rescorla (RTFM), Wendy Seltzer (W3C), Dave Thaler
1324 (Microsoft) and Sean Turner (IECA).
1326 Appendix D. Participants
1328 The participants to the workshop were:
1330 o Bernard Aboba (Microsoft Corporation)
1331 o Thijs Alkemade (Adium)
1333 o Daniel Appelquist (Telefonica Digital)
1335 o Jari Arkko (Ericsson)
1337 o Alia Atlas (Juniper Networks)
1339 o Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA)
1341 o Mary Barnes
1343 o Richard Barnes (Mozilla)
1345 o Steve Bellovin (Columbia University)
1347 o Andrea Bittau (Stanford University)
1349 o Marc Blanchet (Viagenie)
1351 o Carsten Bormann (Uni Bremen TZI)
1353 o Bert Bos (W3C)
1355 o Ian Brown (Oxford University)
1357 o Stewart Bryant (Cisco Systems)
1359 o Randy Bush (IIJ / Dragon Research Labs)
1361 o Kelsey Cairns (Washington State University)
1363 o Stuart Cheshire (Apple)
1365 o Vincent Cheval (University of Birmingham)
1367 o Benoit Claise (Cisco)
1369 o Alissa Cooper (Cisco)
1371 o Dave Crocker (Brandenburg InternetWorking)
1373 o Leslie Daigle (Internet Society)
1375 o George Danezis (University College London)
1377 o Spencer Dawkins (Huawei)
1378 o Mark Donnelly (Painless Security)
1380 o Nick Doty (W3C)
1382 o Dan Druta (AT&T)
1384 o Peter Eckersley (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
1386 o Lars Eggert (NetApp)
1388 o Kai Engert (Red Hat)
1390 o Monika Ermert
1392 o Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin)
1394 o Barbara Fraser (Cisco)
1396 o Virginie Galindo (gemalto)
1398 o Stefanie Gerdes (Uni Bremen TZI)
1400 o Daniel Kahn Gillmor (ACLU)
1402 o Wendy M. Grossman
1404 o Christian Grothoff (The GNUnet Project)
1406 o Oliver Hahm (INRIA)
1408 o Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Center for Democracy & Technology)
1410 o Phillip Hallam-Baker
1412 o Harry Halpin (W3C/MIT and IRI)
1414 o Ted Hardie (Google)
1416 o Joe Hildebrand (Cisco Systems)
1418 o Russ Housley (Vigil Security, LLC)
1420 o Cullen Jennings (CISCO)
1422 o Leif Johansson (SUNET)
1424 o Harold Johnson (Irdeto)
1425 o Alan Johnston (Avaya)
1427 o L. Aaron Kaplan (CERT.at)
1429 o Steve Kent (BBN Technologies)
1431 o Achim Klabunde (European Data Protection Supervisor)
1433 o Hans Kuhn (NOC)
1435 o Christian de Larrinaga
1437 o Ben Laurie (Google)
1439 o Eliot Lear (Cisco Ssytems)
1441 o Barry Leiba (Huawei Technologies)
1443 o Sebastian Lekies (SAP AG)
1445 o Orit Levin (Microsoft Corporation)
1447 o Carlo Von LynX (#youbroketheinternet)
1449 o Xavier Marjou (Orange)
1451 o Larry Masinter (Adobe)
1453 o John Mattsson (Ericsson)
1455 o Patrick McManus (Mozilla)
1457 o Doug Montgomery (NIST)
1459 o Kathleen Moriarty (EMC)
1461 o Alec Muffett (Facebook)
1463 o Suhas Nandakumar (Cisco Systems)
1465 o Linh Nguyen (ERCIM/W3C)
1467 o Linus Nordberg (NORDUnet)
1469 o Mark Nottingham
1471 o Karen O'Donoghue (Internet Society)
1472 o Piers O'Hanlon (Oxford Internet Institute)
1474 o Kenny Paterson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
1476 o Jon Peterson (Neustar)
1478 o Joshua Phillips (University of Birmingham)
1480 o Alfredo Pironti (INRIA)
1482 o Dana Polatin-Reuben (University of Oxford)
1484 o Prof. Johan Pouwelse (Delft University of Technology)
1486 o Max Pritikin (Cisco)
1488 o Eric Rescorla (Mozilla)
1490 o Pete Resnick (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.)
1492 o Tom Ristenpart (University of Wisconsin)
1494 o Andrei Robachevsky (Internet Society)
1496 o David Rogers (Copper Horse)
1498 o Scott Rose (NIST)
1500 o Christine Runnegar (Internet Society)
1502 o Philippe De Ryck (DistriNet - KU Leuven)
1504 o Peter Saint-Andre (&yet)
1506 o Runa A. Sandvik (Center for Democracy and Technology)
1508 o Jakob Schlyter
1510 o Dr. Jan Seedorf (NEC Laboratories Europe)
1512 o Wendy Seltzer (W3C)
1514 o Melinda Shore (No Mountain Software)
1516 o Dave Thaler (Microsoft)
1518 o Brian Trammell (ETH Zurich)
1519 o Hannes Tschofenig (ARM Limited)
1521 o Sean Turner (IECA, Inc.)
1523 o Matthias Waehlisch (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
1525 o Greg Walton (Oxford University)
1527 o Rigo Wenning (W3C)
1529 o Tara Whalen (Apple Inc.)
1531 o Greg Wood (Internet Society)
1533 o Jiangshan Yu (University of Birmingham)
1535 o Aaron Zauner
1537 o Dacheng Zhang (Huawei)
1539 o Phil Zimmermann (Silent Circle LLC)
1541 o Juan-Carlos Zuniga (InterDigital)
1543 Authors' Addresses
1545 Stephen Farrell
1546 Trinity College, Dublin
1548 Email: stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie
1550 Rigo Wenning
1551 World Wide Web Consortium
1552 2004, route des Lucioles
1553 B.P. 93
1554 Sophia-Antipolis 06902
1555 France
1557 Email: rigo@w3.org
1558 Bert Bos
1559 World Wide Web Consortium
1560 2004, route des Lucioles
1561 B.P. 93
1562 Sophia-Antipolis 06902
1563 France
1565 Email: bert@w3org
1567 Marc Blanchet
1568 Viagenie
1569 246 Aberdeen
1570 Quebec, QC G1R 2E1
1571 Canada
1573 Email: Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.ca
1574 URI: http://viagenie.ca
1576 Hannes Tschofenig
1577 ARM Ltd.
1578 110 Fulbourn Rd
1579 Cambridge CB1 9NJ
1580 Great Britain
1582 Email: Hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net
1583 URI: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at